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Thursday, May 30, 2013

700 Reader Project Mayhem Blowout Giveaway!

Hello, everyone! Project Mayhem DJ cat is back to kick off our 700 Reader Project Mayhem Blowout Giveaway!!! We have tons of prizes from Agents, Authors, Book Bloggers, and even an Illustrator Portfolio Critique! We have prizes from agents Marietta Zacker (Nancy Gallt) and Stephen Fraser (Jennifer de Chiara Lit). Amazing illustrator, Kevan Atteberry will be critiquing one lucky illustrator's online portfolio. Cynthia Leitich Smith and Stephen Messer have graciously donated a 10 page critique to two lucky writers!Project Mayhem authors, Paul Greci, Marissa Burt, Michael Winchell, Matt Rush, Michael Gettel-Gilmartin, Hilary Wagner, James Milhaley, Lee Wardlaw, Chri Eboch, and Dianne Salerni will all be giving critiques as well! Check out our Team Mayhem Profiles to know what you're getting into! We'll also be giving out new books too, many signed, so if you're a writer, illustrator, or reader, we've got you covered! :)

To keep it easy, we are doing this Rafflecopter style! Simply login with your email address or facebook login via the link at the bottom of the prize list! The more you spread the news via facebook and twitter, the more chances you have to win! Read on to see our fab list of prizes that we are so honored to give out to our fantastic readers. When this little middle-grade blog was started we had no idea there would be such a positive and overwhelming response! So, thank you!

Contest ends June 12th at midnight! Winners announced Friday the 14th!Now go! Go win some prizes and please share the love!! :)

I was blown away by Judy Blume's "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret," because until that point I'd never read a book that wrote about issues that were important to me. I could only stomach so much Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, and that's about all there was out there for MGers to read. Judy Blume is an MG pioneer and I bow down to her.

Oh! I commented before I read what I was supposed to comment about--d'oh. I loved a picture book called A PICKLE FOR A NICKEL and the JUST SO STORIES and A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES. Then I got stuck on fairy tales. Come to think of it, I still love fairy tales.

Great contest! I'll spread the word! My favorite childhood book ... hmm ... I don't really have one. I started reading children's books in my 30s when I started writing. :D I read a lot of picture books to my kids, and that's what inspired me to write. My favorites were the Berenstain Bears.

I was a late blooming reader (For NON-academic reasons) so it's a limited list, but if my teen years count, it's clearly "A Rat's Tale" by Tor Seidler, which is also the book that informed me as the writer I am today.

These are some amazing prizes! Thanks, guys. I read pretty much non-stop as a kid, so it's hard to narrow it down. I loved all the Dr. Seuss books (which I now read to my own kids), and the Nancy Drew books kindled my love of mystery novels.

"The Chronicles of Narnia" were my favorite books by far, followed with a VERY narrow margin by "Lord of the Rings" which I read earlier than most kids, and reread for greater effect much later. These were closely followed by the "Little House on the Prairie" series. All three different and wonderfully enchanting in their own right!! Thanks for the super amazing contest! AND CONGRATS on reaching 700 fans!!! <3

I would have to say the SpiderWick series! It's the book I read that really got me reading, so of course I give it very big credit for that! It also helped me in my writing.Congratulations on 700 fans!

It's a tie between Charlotte's Web and Hello Aurora. The second one was by a European writer I bought at a school Scholastic book fair. It stuck with me all these years. I bought it a few years ago used on the internet and read it to my daughter.

How can anyone pick one favorite book? First grade it was all the Bobbsey twin books and that biography series (don't know the name). Then it was Nancy Drew, the Wizard of Oz series, Heidi, The Five Little Peppers -- whatever my mother had read as a girl that was still on my grandmother's shelves. And then I discovered Anne of Green Gables and Madeline L'Engle on my own . . . Loved it all.

How can anyone pick one favorite book? First grade it was all the Bobbsey twin books and that biography series (don't know the name). Then it was Nancy Drew, the Wizard of Oz series, Heidi, The Five Little Peppers -- whatever my mother had read as a girl that was still on my grandmother's shelves. And then I discovered Anne of Green Gables and Madeline L'Engle on my own . . . Loved it all.

Too many childhood favorites to have a *definitive* favorite, but someone whose books I loved and whom I don't see mentioned nearly ever enough is Marilyn Sachs. I adored the Amy and Laura series, and I loved Veronica Ganz even more when I reread as an adult.

I also have to go with The Chronicles of Narnia. I remember reading them for the first time in second grade and I was blown away. I had no idea books could be so amazing! I haven't stopped reading since :)

My favorite book as a kid was Harriet the Spy! I read it at least 50 times and made my own spy belt out of junk I found around the house. The only issue was that we lived on a farm and the only thing available to spy on were the chickens. Got kinda old...

To answer your question, I really like Ramona and Her Father. It's a classic, and that was one of the first books that I'd read with chapters. I remember being so proud of myself that I was reading a book that didn't have pictures on all of the pages. It was evidence to me back then that I was a big kid now.

My favorite book growing up was Watership Down. I read it over and over and over. Best of all would be, if I had all afternoon to read... I would go to the Sheetz in town and get a slushee and Doritos and go to my treehouse and spent the afternoon reading the adventures of Fiver and Hazel and company.

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